A Contribution to the Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
by Howard Groveman MD of San Diego State.
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/mededucation/index.htm
by Mark Mabrito
Establishing fruitful interaction in online courses is a persistent challenge. Mark Mabrito shares his personal practices with readers, outlining the tools and policies he has used to enhance interactivity with students, among students, and between students and course content. Mabrito explores the fine lines that instructors must walk: encouraging participation without being overbearing, evaluating student input without making it a dreaded requirement, allowing for spontaneous reactions while promoting careful reasoning and good writing skills, and providing ample resources without overloading or confusing students. For educators struggling with such issues, this article offers clear and practical strategies.
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=12
Model for a code of ethics for bloggers, adapted from the code of
ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists. From the
CyberJournalist.net blog of the American Press Institute's
nonprofit think tank, The Media Center.
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php
http://lii.org?recs=024337
Subjects:
* Weblogs
* Journalistic ethics
Reposted from Librarians' Index to the Internet, lii.org
There's an excellent entry from January on Brainstorms & Raves blog about standards for Web site organization and ways to create user-friendly URLs.
Excerpts:
This article is just as timely today as it was when it was written in 1998: A Standard for Site Organization, by Greg Knauss (with several brains and contributors) at Stating the Obvious. The example root level site structure makes a lot of sense for visitors and for developing and maintaining a website.
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For more on friendly URLs, these posts also include links to helpful information and resources:
This site provides a wonderful collection of organized links to theories that have been applied to instructional design. The collection was created by Marvin Ryder of the School of Education at the University of Colorado, Denver. "Models, like myths and metaphors, help us to make sense of our world. Whether it is derived from whim or from serious research, a model offers its user a means of comprehending an otherwise incomprehensible problem. An instructional design model gives structure and meaning to an I.D. problem, enabling the would-be designer to negotiate her design task with a semblance of conscious understanding. Models help us to visualize the problem, to break it down into discrete, manageable units. The value of a specific model is determined within the context of use. Like any other instrument, a model assumes a specific intention of its user. A model should be judged by how it mediates the designer's intention, how well it can share a work load, and how effectively it shifts focus away from itself toward the object of the design activity."
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/idmodels.html
This is an hour-long video lecture covering a layperson’s introduction to the technology/copyright wars. (Oct. 2004). Transcript available.
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~felten/rip/
Slashdot | Open Source Biology Initiative
Nick dos Remedios writes "The Biological Innovation for Open Society (BIOS) initiative aims to make biological technology more readily available to biologists everywhere. The latest genetics and biology tools should be freely available to researchers over the internet, but instead access is typically restricted by commercial patents and prohibitive licensing fees. BIOS and its associated BioForge aims to overcome these restrictions to innovation by encouraging companies and public sector research organizations to contribute their research tools and technologies to the BioForge repository. In return, users of the technology are bound by an open source license to share all improvements with the original inventors and other license holders."